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Lucknow, Apr 27: In the biggest administrative reshuffle since it assumed power in Uttar Pradesh, the Yogi Adityanath government today transferred 84 IAS and 54 IPS officers including district magistrates and police chiefs. While Civil Defence Secretary Manoj Mishra has been made Director of Culture, Special Secretary (Revenue) Karn Singh Chauhan has been sent to Jhansi as district magistrate, an

New Delhi, Apr 27: BJP's gambit in replacing all its sitting municipal councillors, putting an outsider, actor Manoj Tiwari, at the helm of the state unit and using Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a trump card has paid it handsome dividends in the elections to the three municipal corporations in Delhi. It steamrolled AAP and restricted Congress to a modest revival by taking 181 of the 270 seats —

Apr 27: At least three army men and two terrorists have been killed in a militant attack on an Army camp near Pulwama in Kupwara district. The terrorists attacked the camp around 4 am and opened fire at army camp.The army camp is located close to the Line of Control. Encounter between security forces and terrorists is still under way. Details awaited

New Delhi, Apr 26: Aam Aadmi Party MLA Alka Lamba today offered to resign from her post and also relinquish all positions in the party taking "responsibility" for the defeat of AAP candidates in her constituency. "I take personal responsibility for the party's defeat in all three wards in my constituency and offer to resign from all party posts and as MLA," Lamba, who represents the Chandni Chowk

New Delhi, Apr 26: Heading towards a clean sweep in all the three civic bodies, the BJP today dedicated its impending win to the slain CRPF personnel in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district and decided to refrain from any celebrations. As per the trends, the BJP candidates were maintaining leads over their AAP and Congress rivals in most of the 270 wards for which voting was held on Sunday last. Delh BJP

New Delhi, Apr 26: BJP is cruising towards a huge victory in Delhi municipal elections by winning or leading in 185 wards out of 270 and pushing Aam Aadmi Party to a distant second. The counting is in progress and trends showed that BJP has won or is leading in 185 wards, AAP 47 and Congress 26. Other parties and independents won or leads in 19 seats. According to the State Election Commission

New Delhi, Apr 26: After four days of questioning and strong words from a court, the Delhi Police on Tuesday night arrested AIADMK (Amma) leader T T V Dhinakaran in connection with a case of bribing Election Commission officials for the ‘two leaves’ symbol. Dhinakaran and his aide Mallikarjun were arrested close to midnight following questioning, sources said. He was grilled for about 37 hours

New Delhi, Apr 25: CBI has registered a case against former IPS officer Ranjit Sinha on charges of misuing his official position and trying to influence coal scam probe. He became the second retired CBI Director to face a regular case filed by the agency in a span of three months, the first A P Singh, who was booked in February this year on charges of illegally favouring controversial meat

Kozhikode, Apr 25: Over 190 passengers and the crew of a Dubai-bound Air India flight had a miraculous escape on Monday as the plane veered off the runway after an engine failure during the take off and suffered a tyre burst at the Karipur airport here. The pilot of the flight AI-C937 reported trouble in the left engine at 11.35 am just after taxiing and was to take off, when the incident occurred

Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 25: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday granted conditional bail to Mangalam channel CEO Ajith Kumar and reporter R. Jayachandran in connection with a honey trap case. Eight journalists of the Mangalam channel last week surrendered over the issue of sex track with former Kerala transport minister A.K. Saseendran in front of the investigation team. It is claimed that a team of